Improvement in horseshoe-weights



ADAMS. Horseshoe-Weight.

Nd. 215,550. Patented May 20,1879.

WITNESSES ATTORN EYS AROHIBALD D. ADAMS, OF PROPHETSTOWN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- UNITED STATES PATENT FFIE.

HALF HIS RIGHT TO DANIEL T. VAN ANTWERP, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOE-WEIGHTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,550.. dated May 20, 1879; application filed March 2 1879.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, AROHIBALD DAVID ADAMS, of Prophetsrown, in the county of Whiteside and in the State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe-Weights; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a toe-weight for 'horseshoes, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe- (1, for the insertion of the lower end of the shank F, to which the toe-weight G is connected.

In the back of the weight G is a groove or recess, 11, which is deeper at the top than at the bottom.

From the front, through the weight G, is passed a screw, I, which screws through the upper end of the shank, as shown.

To apply the Weight to the hoof, the screw I is loosened, when the lower end of the shank can be inserted in the slot a of the lip D, and the weight be placed against the front of the hoof. By now tightening the screw I, the upper end of the shank is drawn tightly toward the weight, which makes it bind in the slot at the same time as and because the weight binds against the hoof.

When desired, the weight can easily be removed by simply loosening the screw I.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure .by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the plate 0, having the slotted lip D, the shank F, and the weight G, having a face-groove with increased depth at I the top, and secured in place by a screw, I,

and the whole adapted to be applied to a horseshoe, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

I11 testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of March, 1879.

ARGH'IBALD DAVID ADAMS.

Witnesses W. D. SMITH, H. F. KELLUM. 

